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Mitt: I know what it's like to face a pink slip

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

01/08/2012 05:07 PM EST

Via POLITICO's Reid Epstein, Mitt Romney made more of a move to connect on a personal level in relation to his time at Bain Capital, which had been the source of attacks on the debate stage in New Hampshire just a few hours earlier.

He talked about stocking shelves at the first Staples, for instance, as he told the tale of his tenure with Bain.

And he said this, with no particular context offered:

"I know what its like to worry about whether you're going to get fired. There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was gonna get a pink slip.”

The Times' Ashley Parker notes that Romney's team declined to provide examples of when he was afraid of being fired during his career. I also asked a Romney spokeswoman the question.

She did not respond to it, but did email this statement: "Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has spent 25 years in the real world economy. As a young person just out of college, he worked his way up the career ladder knowing that his continued employment was by no means guaranteed. That's the way it is in the private sector."